I Have Never Really Thought About This Much,

but I guess this is a true statement,

'tanks rarely live to see the next war', is the statement and I guess it is true, the first of the armoured lumbering war machines were obsolete as soon as World War I’s armistice was signed, after World War II, the United States tried to reuse Sherman tanks in Korea, and found them horribly outmatched by new Russian designs, on to today Russia is about to start using a brand-new tank, here’s how the country’s new 'Armata' will work, according to a translation by the U.S. Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office, the Armata’s stats are roughly comparable to the U.S. Army’s M1 Abrams main battle tank, though the Armata is slightly faster and slightly lighter, more interesting than the raw numbers of the vehicle are the defencive systems installed on the tank, one, the 'Afganit active protection complex' is, in theory, 'capable of intercepting shaped-charged grenades, anti-tank missiles, and sub-calibre projectiles,' which it will likely do by shooting rockets at incoming projectiles, which is a tad in the future, however it could be using a force field type of defence, like this shockwave attenuation system, the patents that Boeing have filed seem to be pretty much up to the job, it basically uses an electric arc, a laser-induced arc and a microwave-induced arc, 

in the patent illustration, the force field protects a military HMMWV, but the design is written broadly enough that it can potentially protect everything from ships to submarines, offshore platforms, ground vehicles, buildings, and even humans, we have come a long way from a sling shot and a bow and arrow.